Top 86 Mattered To Me Quotes
#1. Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
Kajol
#2. I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
Kiefer Sutherland
#3. They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!
Suzanne Collins
#4. A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
Alain De Botton
#5. The only thing that mattered to me, was the fact that I mattered to you.
Timothy Joshua
#6. I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
Bob Goff
#7. I loved being admired by Richard. It was the kind of admiration that mattered to me. I felt adored, worshipped.
Elizabeth Taylor
#8. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J.K. Rowling
#9. If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.
C.S. Lewis
#10. I was being pushed into a corner from every angle, and I was missing out on all the things that had always mattered to me.
Kiera Cass
#11. I was so dedicated to generating income to keep my family housed and clothed and schooled. That mattered to me. And playing good golf mattered to me. The rest of the things, like how my record stacked up against others, never made that much difference.
Billy Casper
#12. I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.
Sonakshi Sinha
#14. I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from his chest with my decision, and that's what mattered to me. I was giving up a piece of my own as well, but it was a choice.
His was just collateral.
Rachael Wade
#15. I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
Marvin Bell
#16. And I'm not ashamed or regretful. I spent my days loving those who mattered to me. What else is there in life?
Aline Ohanesian
#17. What is your greatest regret?
Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly.
Matt Damon
#18. Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren't even real. All I ever wanted was you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#19. I've always loved who I loved, and it never mattered to me where they were from. That's how it should be: wherever your heart tells you to go, you go.
Rutina Wesley
#20. That's the whole story of how I was so stupid as to risk everything that mattered to me, on something so meaningless.
Mhairi McFarlane
#21. I thought you were gone forever, I thought you'd walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn't.
Alexandra Adornetto
#22. And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret - to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#23. I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting to reach out and just strangle him or send a few F-bombs his way, I just bit my tongue, told him he offended me and walked away.
Jim Furyk
#24. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
Rick Riordan
#25. When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.
Stevie Wonder
#26. Were they laughing at me? I forced myself to block them from my mind, to concentrate on the lake, the water. What were they to me? People I met today, that was all. We shared blood. The One who mattered to me still found me worthy, still loved me, whether I knew when to curtsy properly or not.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#27. I said it grieved me to part from anything that mattered to me, yet I welcomed the grief because it meant I had felt deeply and needed to express it. 'I even had trouble leaving the Parthenon,' I told him ... 'because it was so beautiful and I knew I'd never see it again.
Jeanne Safer
#28. I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.
Kathleen Glasgow
#29. The afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I wanted to know where she was now, if anywhere.
John Green
#30. The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.
Tullian Tchividjian
#31. Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
Maelle Gavet
#32. The first rose on my rose-tree
Budded, bloomed, and shattered,
During sad days when to me
Nothing mattered.
Grief of grief has drained me clean;
Still it seems a pity
No one saw, - it must have been
Very pretty.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#33. Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.
Nick Wechsler
#34. Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.
Kimberly McCreight
#35. This entire ordeal taught me a valuable lesson. People are important-not things. I was no longer keeping up with the Joneses, material things or lots of money; that mattered very little to me. Life isn't about having, is about being.
Silvia Corradin
#36. Do you want me enough to let me love you?" That was the real question, wasn't it? The only one that mattered. "Yes.
Kit Rocha
#37. I wanted to rewind. Go back. Tell Decker to take the long way around. Go back even further. Ask Decker to stay inside with me. I would have told him something important, and it would've mattered. Before all this, it would've mattered.
Megan Miranda
#38. I learned long ago that home is a word that applies to people, not places ... Didn't matter to me where I was - it mattered who I was with.
Beth Revis
#39. I talk different, I walk different, everything. I don't have one single bad memory [there]. Not one. It was my sanctuary. I hated school, wasn't good in school, and me and my dad butted heads about that. But nothing mattered when I went home to Alabama.
Channing Tatum
#40. I did not care about being a virgin and had long been looking forward to the day when I could rid myself of that status, but when I saw how much it mattered to him to be the first boy I had been with, I could not five him such a hold over me.
Jamaica Kincaid
#41. I'll never forget the things you said to me. Not because they mattered, but because they made me feel like I did.
Monica Murphy
#42. Nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind levelled whatever was offered to me at the time
Albert Camus
#43. How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?
Ilona Andrews
#44. She told me one time that it wasn't the material things in life that mattered. She wouldn't be able to take them with her anyway. She said the only thing that counted was how much love you left behind." She smiled. "Your mama left behind an awful lot of love.
Virginia Gaffney
#45. The very things that separated me and distinguished me from other people were what mattered; the very things no one else would or could say, these were the things I had to say.
Andre Gide
#46. But I think for the first time in my life, something has mattered enough for me to take a chance. I'm way more terrified of losing you than I ever could be of trying and failing.
Penelope Ward
#47. My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.
Ruth Ahmed
#48. What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
Anita Hill
#49. It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.
Ann Hood
#50. I hesitated for just a moment. Some part of me wanted to see the creature, after having heard it for so many days. Was it the remnants of the scientist in me, trying to regroup, trying to apply logic when all that mattered was survival? If so, it was a very small part. I ran.
Jeff VanderMeer
#51. I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.
Sarah Stillman
#52. We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An
Ilona Andrews
#53. The most important people in this man's life - the people who have mattered to him most - aren't my Mother or his wives or me or Anna or Allie. The people who matter most are the people in his head. That is loneliness.
Matthew Norman
#54. One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me ... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
Taylor Swift
#55. I believed that what mattered to God was the direction I was facing not how far away I was. Sin it seemed to me was the refusal to let God be God.
Sara Wheeler
#56. I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice Walker
#57. One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
Ines De La Fressange
#58. And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
Anna Quindlen
#59. You've always had me, Ezekiel," I managed, meeting his bright blue stare. "Time never mattered. Vampire or human, if we had forever or just a few years, I'd always choose to spend it with you.
Julie Kagawa
#60. You're outnumbered.' That had never mattered much to me before. 'Drop the gun, Bandit.' Malik sneered.
'There's only one man who gets to call me that,' I said. 'And you're not near as good-looking as him.
Alwyn Hamilton
#61. Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years.
Samuel Beckett
#62. I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
Nas
#63. It's funny. Looking back, none of it seems to matter now, those moments of yearning, craving to belong with people I thought mattered. No more fragments of glass, pieces of a broken mirror you can't put back together and wouldn't want to even if you could.
Rebecca Harris
#64. The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and language-obsessed to that country where I make my living. Except for teaching, I've had no other ambition in life than to write books that mattered.
Pat Conroy
#65. Don't 'Syd' me. You've lied to me. You've hid things from me. How dare you talk to me like we're still friends, like we ever mattered to you at all?--Sydney Field
Megan Maldonado
#66. A trap closed around my heart, and in that moment, I was helpless. Whether she loved me for my money or myself, whether she loved me at all, whether her heart was even available for the winning ... none of it mattered. I was smitten to the core.
Julianne Donaldson
#67. Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me.
Robin Hobb
#68. I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.
Johann Lamont
#69. I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.
Andy Van Slyke
#70. I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.
X. Williamson
#71. I can't forget you, any more than I can forget my own name. He kissed me then, and the world which no longer mattered, completely fell away.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#72. I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.
Sandra Cisneros
#73. he'd spent his whole life trying to make God love him - and that this didn't matter in the slightest. All that mattered was that he loved God. He told me that once he knew this he was home free.
Thomas Mallon
#74. Daddy got mad when people made assumptions about him, but I liked it. It made me feel someone wanted to know me. Even if they were wrong, it didn't matter. It mattered only that they were trying.
Alicia Erian
#75. I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not important, and the ones that really mattered were those I remembered. Now I write them all down.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#76. The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will's arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.
Donna Freitas
#77. Something inside me burned bright when he said that. A hell of a lot of people had seen me last night, but only one person had noticed the tiny details. Only one person has been close enough to see what really mattered. And that person was still standing with me now.
Robin Benway
#78. I stared at them while my control unraveled. I wanted to throw them in the trash. I wanted to return them. I wanted to keep them. I was a mess of wants, none of which mattered, because she didn't want me.
Cora Carmack
#79. I was looking at my past self through the one-way interrogation window of my current self, and it caused me to experience the strange sadness that accompanies helplessness. If only I could have told teenage Elizabeth that none of it actually mattered. It all seemed to matter so much at the time.
Penny Reid
#80. I kept yelling at them that you were a human being, that you mattered, and it was like they weren't even listening to me. I couldn't do anything to help you and I couldn't make them take care of you the way I wanted, you know?"
I nodded. I did know. And now I knew that Duffy did too.
Leslie Feinberg
#81. I staggered weakly to my feet. What mattered hunger? What mattered thirst? They were but incidents on the road to Babylon. Within me surged the soul of a free man going back to conquer his enemies and reward his friends. I thrilled with the great resolve.
George S. Clason
#82. Why do people let me speak to them so rudely? If they'd let me get away with less, I might think what I said mattered more.
Leah Stewart
#83. So I wrote. I wrote as though God thought my voice mattered. I wrote because I believed a human story was beautiful, no matter how small the human was. I wrote because I didn't make myself, God did. And I wrote like he'd invited me to share my true "self" with the world.
Donald Miller
#84. This was how Diego saw me. I was Henry Denton and I was Space Boy. I was broken and I was beautiful. I was nothing and I was everything. I didn't matter to the universe, but I mattered to him.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#85. None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade.
Alice Munro
#86. She was everything to me: my dreams, my weakness, and the person who made me want to be strong. She was the one woman who showed me I mattered, that I was wanted. That I was enough.
Mia Sheridan
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